multicenter study
A clinical trial that is carried out at more than one medical institution.
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158 matchesmulticentric breast cancer
Breast cancer in which there is more than one tumor, all of which have formed separately from one another.
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In medicine, a term used to describe a treatment planning approach or team that includes a number of doctors and other health care professionals who are experts in different specialties (disciplines).
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A treatment planning approach in which a number of doctors who are experts in different specialties (disciplines) review and discuss the medical condition and treatment options of a patient.
Read definitionmultidrug resistance
Adaptation of tumor cells to anticancer drugs in ways that make the drugs less effective.
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Treatment used to make cancer cells less resistant to anticancer drugs.
Read definitionmultifocal breast cancer
Breast cancer in which there is more than one tumor, all of which have arisen from one original tumor.
Read definitionmultimodality treatment
Therapy that combines more than one method of treatment.
Read definitionmultiple endocrine adenomatosis
A rare, inherited disorder that affects the endocrine glands and can cause tumors in the parathyroid and pituitary glands and the pancreas.
Read definitionmultiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 syndrome
A rare, inherited disorder that affects the endocrine glands and can cause tumors in the parathyroid and pituitary glands and the pancreas.
Read definitionmultiple hamartoma syndrome
An inherited disorder marked by the formation of many noncancerous growths called hamartomas.
Read definitionmultiple myeloma
Harm arrives from two directions at once: cells crowding the marrow, and the abnormal protein those cells pour into the circulation.
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Scattered patches of damage explain the scattered symptoms, since what a person notices depends entirely on which pathway has been hit.
Read definitionmultiplicity
Multiplicity describes the presence of more than one instance of a finding, such as several tumors or lesions, within the same patient or organ.
Read definitionglioblastoma multiforme
The commonest malignant brain tumor in adults, named for how many different faces it presents under a microscope.
Read definitionstage I multiple myeloma
Relatively few cancer cells have spread throughout the body.
Read definitionCowden disease
An inherited condition that scatters benign growths through many organs and raises the lifetime risk of several cancers.
Read definitionGBM
Three letters standing for a diagnosis that now depends as much on molecular testing as on what the tumor looks like.
Read definitionglioblastoma
What makes it so hard to remove is not its size but its edges, which merge into brain that looks and behaves normally.
Read definitionpolyneuritis
An older label for damage affecting many nerves at once, kept mainly where inflammation is genuinely the cause.
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